British National Committee for Space Research
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The British National Committee for Space Research (BNCSR) was a Royal Society committee formed in December 1958. It was formed primarily to be Britain's interface with the newly formed Committee on Space Research (COSPAR).
History
In October 1958, the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) proposed to form a committee for space research. The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) was the result of the proposal and first met in November 1958.Template:Sfn Britain desired a new committee to interface with COSPAR and to organise British spaceflight activities after the International Geophysical Year (IGY).Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn The Royal Society consolidated the Gassiot Committee's rocket and the National IGY Committee's artificial satellite subcommittees into the newly formed British National Committee for Space Research (BNCSR).Template:Sfn The BNCSR was officially formed on 18 December 1958 and selected its members 12 February 1959.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn The 28-person committee was chaired by Harrie Massey and had W. V. D. Hodge as the physical secretary.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn The subcommittees that were to be incorporated into BNCSR submitted their final reports during the committee's first meeting on 4 March 1959 and were officially dissolved.Template:Sfn
Subcommittees
The BNCSR formed three subcommittees: Tracking Analysis and Data Recovery (TADREC, chaired by J. A. Ratcliffe),Template:Sfn Design for Experiments (DOE, chaired by Massey), and another to coordinate with the World Data Centre at Radio Research Station (RRS) at Slough (chaired by E. Bullard).Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
TADREC took over the work National IGY Committee's artificial satellite subcommittee.Template:Sfn
DOE continued the work of the National IGY Committee's artificial satellite subcommittee.Template:Sfn The new subcommittee had two initials tasks: to find artificial satellites to launch on and to consider if it was worth providing attitude control to Skylark for better scientific results.Template:Sfn
See also
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